Kaplan, LA 70548 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Kaplan, LA, ZIP 70548
Around 02/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 173 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/05, about 298 frost-free days later.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Kaplan, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Kaplan has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Kaplan's last frost
02/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/19 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Kaplan compares
About 298 days separate Kaplan's last and first frost, putting it 4,210 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 193 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Kaplan's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Kaplan's dates instead of trusting one.